CONCERNING TONGUES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 44.

CONCERNING TONGUES.

ALTHO it is the Chinese language which is spoken by the largest number of people on the face of the earth, it is in English that more than half of all existing newspapers are written. Against a population of nearly 400,000,000 which speak Chinese, English is spoken by about 200,000,000. Next comes German, with 85,000,000; then Russian, with 75,000,000. French and Spanish are each the native tongue of 41,000,000, Italian of 30,000,000, and Portuguese of only 13,000,000. In the United States newspapers appear printed in twenty-four different languages. The Italian tongue is, outside of Italy, mainly spoken in Egypt and America. The use of Spanish is decreasing, but it is still a very important language in commerce.—Westminster Gazette.